| Romulea bulbocodium (L.) Sebast. & Mauri, it is a perennial plant with ovoid to subglobose bulb form corm, c. 1-1.25 cm diam, covered with brownish scales. Stem (scape) to- 15 cm long at fruiting. Leaves green erect or reeurved, narrow linear. 100-300 x 1-1.5 mm. with ± acute tips. Flowers 1-5 on scape, funnel-shaped, hairy at throat, longer than bracts. Perianth segments large lanceolate, obtuse, 1.5-5 cm long, purple or lilac (sometimes yellow or orange), orange spotted at the throat. Stamens shorter than the perianth segments, filaments hairy. Ovary ovoid-oblong with long style ending in 6-branched stigma. Oblong capsule with many seeds. Seeds orange-brown, broadly ovoid, depressed towards the hilar region, trigonal, but with obtuse angles. Raphe prominent, paler than the head. Life Form: G, Flowering in: Jan-Apr, Vern:——————, Phytochoria: MED, The native range of this species is Medit. Notes: Wild in Libya.
For more information: https://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:440687-1, https://www.ipni.org/n/440687-1, https://www.worldfloraonline.org/taxon/wfo-0000785422, https://www.gbif.org/species/2743687, https://africanplantdatabase.ch/en/nomen/specie/160685/romulea-bulbocodium-l-sebast-mauri, https://www.atlasdesemillasdecanarias.org/atlas/ficha.php?ID=39, https://www.preservons-la-nature.fr/flore/taxon/3395.html, https://www.florealpes.com/fiche_romuleabulbocodium.php, https://dryades.units.it/floritaly/index.php?procedure=taxon_page&tipo=all&id=7061, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Romulea_bulbocodium |
| Distribution in Libya |
| Al-Jabal Al-Akhder |
| Lamluda 1933 Solonta, Between Al-Mrj and Tolmeta 1939 (5 km) E, Tocra, Ras El–Hilal, (23 km) E. of Susa 1967 Wadi Zaza 2003 Wadi Haboon 2015 Sidi Abu-Ras 2017 Al-Abiar (Sidi Amohamed forest) 2020 |
| Bibliographic references: | |
| First: Encyclopedia Flora of Libyan: | |
| Jafri, S.M.H. & El-Gadi, A. (1980) Flora of Libya, Iridaceae Vol. (81) Department of Botany, Al-Faateh Univ., Tripoli, Libya. | |
| Second: Researches and PhD theses, master theses, Sorted by Newest: | pdf files |
| Al-Amrouni, M,M., Al-Zarbi, A., Al-Aeb, M. A. (2020) Study of vegetation cover in Sidi Amohamed forest north of the city of Al-Abyar in the Al-Jabal Al-Al-Akhdar. Libya. Journal of Quality Assurance for Scientific Research-The first issue-April-2020 (In Arabic). https://lqac.org.ly/index.php/april2020/, https://lqac.org.ly/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/PDF-1.pdf | غابة سيدي أمحمد شمال مدينة الابيار2020 |
| El-Zerbi, A. K. & Al-Aib, M.A. (2017) Study of vegetation cover in Sidi Bouras region, Al-Jabal Al-Akhdar, Libya. Journal of Environmental Science and Engineering JESE, VOL. 1, No. 1, January 2017. (In Arabic) http://jese.uoa.edu.ly/JESE_V1N1/JESE_V1N1P11.pdf | سيدي ابو راس 2017 |
| El-Rabiai, G.T. & Al tira, M. (2015) Checklist of the Flora of Wadi Haboon at AI Jabal AI Akhdar (Cyrenaica, Libya). International Journal of Pharmacy & Life Sciences 6(8-9): Aug-Sep, 2015:4661-4665] Coden (USA): IJPLCP ISSN: 0976-7126. http://uob.edu.ly/assets/uploads/pagedownloads/27a3a-wadi-haboon.pdf | Wadi Haboon at AI Jabal AI Akhdar 2015 |
| El-Barasi, Y. M., EI-Sherif, l. M. & Gawhari, A. M. H.(2003) Checklist and analysis of the flora and vegetation of Wadi Zaza at AI-Jabal AI Akhdar (Cyrenaica, Libya). Bocconea 16 (2): 1091-1105. 2003. – ISSN 1120-4060. https://bit.ly/3VowJ3q, http://www.herbmedit.org/bocconea/16-1091.pdf | flora and vegetation of Wadi Zaza 2003_compressed |
